It works nice! This is a big improvement.
If you now do a "clear Net TV memory" and loose all settings you can fast add the Apps back to your Net TV homepage.
The loading of the preview is a bid slow, but you do not have to wait for that, just press add.

The change on the open internet pages was needed too.
Now your favorite URL's are remembered if you mark them. Good!
How many favorites can we store?

The not-so-good ones:
- PIP video aspect ratio: fixed partly
=> 4:3 broadcasts are stretched to 16:9 - so, wrong aspect ratio
- OpenInternet: the (X) in the top left corner (to delete last visited website) is not clear (from a usability point of view)
- OpenInternet: if no website is marked as favorite a nice tool tip can be seen (that one can mark a website as favorite): however, the German translation does not fit in that box => does not look good
- OpenInternet: the tool tip mentioned above does not state where to find the option to mark a website as favorite (in my German translation) => the tool tip should state that one could mark a website as favorite by pressing the option key on the remote

Great job Phil, thanks!!
I really like the changes which all are improvements.

Some other suggestions:
- when adding favorites, currently new favorites are placed BEFORE existing ones whereas it feels more natural to place them AFTER existing ones.
- make favorites drag & droppable just like NetTV apps
- remember the zoom percentage (at least for sites which have been marked as favorite)
- in the online keyboard when keeping a navigation key pressed (up, down, left or right), keep the key selector moving after a short delay. This will speed up selecting characters.
- even more faster will be a keyboard which looks like an keyboard on a telephone for SMS messages (this keyboard could just be an additional one to the four existing ones: uppercase, lowercase ... )

Last edited by daL; 04-05-2011 at 09:05 AM.
Reason: A few suggestions added

Curious, Dailymotion doesn't work here, for months.
It starts a yellow progression bar, gets to the end and... nothing.
Black screen with yellow bar.
I've tested now with the new 2.6 portal and it's the same.
It may not be related with the NetTV portal, but still... why doesn't Dailymotion work?

Some months ago I could enter Dailymotion but inside the navigation locked up, it was unuseable.

What I miss at open internet: Arrow keys on the left an right hand side of the previous visited pages in order to scroll trough the priviously visited pages. The actual implementation only shows the 4 latest ones and I have to remove the first entry in order to see the 5th but this means the first is gone.

With my 8404 I don't see any improvements. May be, its faster. May be, changes in Apps gallery are only releated to PiP, that isn't implemented in 2009 devices.

The only change I see is in design of open internet. There are now 8 places for favourites.
But for that 8 URLs I did remember in history of called pages were left. Only the newest 4 did remain.
Before I did use the history like a favourite list. And the 12 places where an improvement over the 8 in NetTV 1.0. Now only the last 4 called URLs stay visible in history pages. If I press "back" in the input line I get an other history, may be, there are now more places but the old one (bevore 2.6) are lost.
Indeed, favourites are more intuitive then places in history and prevent from overite by new URLs. But only 8 places are too less.

And helpfull would be, if I could edit URLs from history before calling the Page. Usefull for correcting misspelled URLs.

Edit/update:

Ok, Now I did find out the new behaviour in adding Apps from gallery. Yes, this is indeed much more intuitive then before.

My wishes in improving navigating in App gallery would be
* hide known but unwanted Apps (like channels in channel list)
* better jumping from page to page: if I choose a jumping point on the left this point (page number) isn't remembered to start from if I like to jump to next page, alternative page jumping by p+/p- key
* alternativ order (alphabetic, newes added first, ...)
For would be more important
but great would be

1. Open the App Gallery
2. Select an app category, like Video or Entertainment
3. Only apps of this category are shown, select one app and add it without moving it

Then, afterwards, you see the app gallery, which shows a list of all the apps. The selected category is still the one you have selected in step 2. This is a kind of inconsistent behaviour. If you only want to see the apps of the category you selected in step 2, you have to select another category and then go back to this category.

I would expect, that only apps of the selected category are shown. If all apps are shown, category should be all.

1. Open the App Gallery
2. Select an app category, like Video or Entertainment
3. Only apps of this category are shown, select one app and add it without moving it

Then, afterwards, you see the app gallery, which shows a list of all the apps. The selected category is still the one you have selected in step 2. This is a kind of inconsistent behaviour. If you only want to see the apps of the category you selected in step 2, you have to select another category and then go back to this category.

I would expect, that only apps of the selected category are shown. If all apps are shown, category should be all.

Hope I could make it clear.

Greets

Excellent observation SMART! Thank you for reporting this! Yes, you found a bug. To be fixed with the next release. (You certainly have the right name on this forum).

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